[Developers] Write access from Acre apps
Jim Pick
jim at jimpick.com
Mon Nov 17 21:55:53 UTC 2008
Hi,
I've been playing around with Acre. Very cool!
I'm interested in a way to write little editing utilities to make it
more efficient to add/edit large sets of data, by multiple users.
Are there any plans for exposing write access to Acre apps? On the
wiki, I see a acre.freebase.MqlRead, but no acre.freebase.MqlWrite.
Actually, there does seem to be an API method if you search for it. I
tried to use it, but it failed due to an authentication failure. Not a
big surprise there, as I can see how it might be a bit dangerous if any
app could just write anything as the logged-in user that happened to
navigate to it.
I know I can use the mqlwrite service, and request users names and
passwords. That's the classic "password anti-pattern" however (like
twitterank). I do see some references to OAuth here and there, eg.
http://oauth.stefanomazzocchi.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/
I guess that's going to be the solution?
Cheers,
- Jim
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